skitsIdeas

What I hope for from a skit:

Your skit ideas should be an original short dramatic scene that involves material heavily dependent on our reading material this semester. It can do that by including snippets from stories in what we have read or by including characters from what we have read, or by other means.

Groups can be anywhere from 1 person to many, but you will need to meet together outside of class: the more people, the more difficult that is to do.

This is meant to be a creative way to reflect on and present a serious issue.
Do not be offensive in any way. Do not make this merely humorous either.

Ideas for skit generation

Take any character that interests you and imagine a situation that character must have faced, then represent that situation dramatically.
Imagine a character that probably did exist, give him/her a name, and situate him/her in a narrative in an interesting way.

Take any issue in the works we have read that interests you, and imagine a scene that involves that issue:

Role of women, children, slaves, kings, victims, gods, sons, daughters, partners, etc.
Pessimistic v. optimistic interpretation: pacifism? militarism?

Take a modern concern and imagine it into a situation having to do with the Trojan War

free speech, equal rights, victim-blaming, wealth distribution, immigration, feminism, environmentalism, PTSD, etc.
just be careful about such things: provoke questions, but not offense.

Recreate an obviously Trojan-War situation in the modern world somehow.

I'd love to see props, costumes, music, song, dance, or anything like that.

Costumes, for instance, need not be fancy: wonders can be done with merely a scarf, or a hat, or a mask, or a color scheme.

There should be a "point" to the skit: remember how we wondered about Sophocles' Electra whether Sophocles had a point to make or was just producing a good play? Well, for your skit, we shouldn't have to wonder: there should be a point, something that you can tell us that the skit is about that is important.

Skits will be graded on choice of episode, creativity, and the point of the skit (the thing that makes it worth seeing, the clever bit, the premise, the thing that will make people think or realize something) as well as execution (is it "well done"). Your grade will be further determined by what others on your skit team report: participate fully and heartily.